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Now here’s a guy that knows what he’s talking about. Jackie Bradley may or may not make the OD roster, but he won’t be Pawing his tucket for long.

I don’t know that he’ll win it, but much as I respect Corey, we’ll see about Bruce Rondon. But he’s certainly got the heat to work off of to set up his other pitches. Not that a player has to be on the Opening Day roster to earn ROY honors, but the Profar selections have an extra underdog quality opening the season in AA. That’s one thing. Adam Eaton being on the DL for close to the first couple months is quite a bit more challenging.

It’d be easy for me to just pick one name and thrive or dive on it for any of the awards, but I just don’t do it that way, so it sounds like just being critical, and so be it, but I just don’t see picking Votto for MVP. He’s a truly great player, and may well put up outstanding player numbers, but the races are likely in the other 2 divisions in The League, and I’d imagine the MVP comes from one of those 2. I’ll admit that type logic, while I think is sensible is hardly fool proof.

While I show no indication who wins the AL MVP, one of my pre-season senses is that Miggy Cabrera has them talking about a repeat Triple Crown as late as June or July.

Jackie Bradley has made the team, according to reports… he may not stay with the team for long (they’ll have to make a spot for David Ortiz and I’m not sure they want Bradley sitting on the bench) BUT he’ll get a nice cup of tea and an opportunity to prove that he’s ready to supplant Jonny Gomes (whom the Red Sox just invested a decent chunk of money on).

Bruce Rondon was optioned to AAA… will have to play his way back to relevancy.

Good point RC – I always thought of the “player to watch” as an up an comer.
What about the ‘Comeback POY’ award? Hands down, Ryan Howard – coming in a close second (hopefully) would be one Chase Utley – (I know, a homer is a homer..)

Several of you picked Cole Hamels for NL CY. While that may NOT SEEM like an underdog pick around here, I believe most of the nation would expect Strasburg, Kershaw, Cain, Gio, and several other candidates to be favorites, so I think he truly is an underdog for the award.
I’ll go with all who picked him.

As other commenters have already said, I don’t understand enough about the “player to watch” category to pick one.

No way Stanton wins MVP because with that lineup there is no reason for any pitcher to ever throw him a strike.

I also had a good chuckle at some of the manager of the year picks. Not because they’re bad picks, and they might well win, but because half those guys are complete idiots and will get votes anyway. C’mon, Kirk Gibson?

Not only does Stanton have that pathetic lineup surrounding him (imagine all the RBIs he’ll get with no one on base!) but it’s extremely rare for a player on what’s probably a last place team to be voted MVP.

it just wouldn’t be a baseball season without Andrew and I disagreeing ……………

My take is that the Nats sucked long enough to ensure they got the #1 overall draft pick – in back-to-back seasons where there just so happened to be Once-In-A-Lifetime type players …… Harper, Strasburg … Without those two, they aren’t the NL favorites, they’re a middle-of-the-pack team .

They also got Ryan Zimmerman with a #4 pick… Ross Detwiler with a #6 pick… and Drew Storen with a #10 pick. I don’t know that having a terrible Major League team- getting a bunch of top draft picks for years and years should really be considered “doing things the right way?”

…Granted.. with our payroll, Ruben Amaro could have and should have been signing MULTIPLE players with the $10-15-20-25 M contracts handed out to certain individuals… We agree there, but I can’t agree with you that the way the Nationals were constructed over the past decade should be the plan for any team.